Poetry Quote by Leonard Koren Download Open image ““Pare down to the essence, but don't remove the poetry.”” — Leonard Koren ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Wabi-sabi
“Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader.” — Jeremy Young Copy Share Image
“I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Poetry without truth, is like a rose without thorns. Still pretty, But sometime the real beauty comes from the things that can make us… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“This observation, understanding, and appreciation, when combined with the excellence of poetic expression, produce the best poetry, steeped in poetic truth and served with… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“Poetry is sometimes cryptic because we don’t always want things easily understood. Painful truth is hard enough as it is, but sometimes we want… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“As with life’s finer things, Poetry is created to be savored, not consumed.” — Branch Isole Copy Share Image
“If you’re not attempting to get someone to see, feel, think, or act in a particular manner, why bother communicating at all?” — leonard koren Copy Share Image
“Get rid of all that is unnecessary. Wabi-sabi means treading lightly on the planet and knowing how to appreciate whatever is encountered, no matter… — Leonard Koren Copy Share Image
“Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.” — Leonard Koren Copy Share Image
“Things are either devolving toward, or evolving from, nothingness. As dusk approaches in the hinterlands, a traveler ponders shelter for the night. He notices… — Leonard Koren Copy Share Image
“Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness. Wabi-sabi is ambivalent about separating beauty from non-beauty or ugliness. The beauty of wabi-sabi is in one… — Leonard Koren Copy Share Image
“But when does something's destiny finally come to fruition? Is the plant complete when it flowers? When it goes to seed? When the seeds… — Leonard Koren Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image